From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ESNRr-0005BO-Ga for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:34:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9JNVRKU011319; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:31:27 GMT Received: from web31712.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web31712.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.201.192]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9JNRGSr032398 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:27:17 GMT Received: (qmail 18444 invoked by uid 60001); 19 Oct 2005 23:29:44 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=JGy/rIXoyfsFHGIsH91MdHj0s70rAekL6b3WZAxXFz10QAdwQyaqwLm/WrN14dDxuDLdsZS4G7Scb/BuWAmHocYOuli45T2UsnV2pt2Js3DUCPAc1DvsIdmZdgO2kMhcdrnSKON9fq6p4OVC3EYkMpA3JQWMYglRT9Y2Uzx2c7c= ; Message-ID: <20051019232944.18442.qmail@web31712.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [64.228.98.190] by web31712.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:29:44 PDT Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:29:44 -0700 (PDT) From: maxim wexler Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] low-level formatting a harddrive To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1129740070.6142.61.camel@alain.oneredshoe.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 64316aba-841f-4e48-b5b1-65e77ec09b5a X-Archives-Hash: e21ce39455727d858b39d4dbefdeec16 --- Scott Tiret wrote: > On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 09:28 -0700, maxim wexler > wrote: > > > > I wonder if there isn't a tiny part of the drive > that > > comes before the first partition, like those first > few > > grooves on a vinyl record ;-) > > There is. You can reset it by using fdisk /mbr > (from the Microsoft doesn't work > Windows boot disk). Or you can try using cfdisk as > described below. > __________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list